Re: Yum repository indices broken by reorganization

From: Michael Schwendt <mschwendt tmp0701 nospam arcor de>

To: fedora-devel-list redhat com

Subject: Re: Yum repository indices broken by reorganization

Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:26:10 +0100

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:52:21 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 12 March 2007 15:39:34 Michel Salim wrote:
> > I've been unable to successfully update my system since yesterday; a
> > cursory check shows that files on the mirrors have been moved from
> > Fedora/RPMS/ to Fedora/ .
> >
> > Presumably this will be fixed with the next update of Rawhide?
>
> yum clean all; try again.
Doubtful, because "all" includes "packages". At least on FC-6.
And you don't want to kill the cached packages, but just headers
and metadata, so cleaning "headers", "metadata" and "dbcache"
looks promising.
But with updated repository metadata this should not be necessary
at all. What is wrong?